Excerpt from Mechanism of the Ossicles of the Ear and Membrana Tympani Results clue to the small Dimensions ofthe Auditory Apparatus. The most important step in advance made by Edward Weber in the theory of the transmission of sound in the ear - a step which has received much less consideration than it deserves seems to me to be the view that, in the transmission of sound vibrations, the bones of the ear and the petrous portion of the temporal bone are to be considered as solid, incompressible bodies, and the fluid of the labyrinth as an incompressible fluid.. He rightly declares that in the case of these bodies and fluids there can be no question as to the transmission of waves of condensation and rarefaction, but that the bones of the ear' must be considered as solid levers, and the fluid of the laby rinth as a mass only to be moved as a whole. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.